Check out the latest poster of Ateneo Blue Repertory’s COMPANY CALL: BLUEREP at 20. A one night only concert featuring Bluereppers past and present. So many productions jam-packed into one night of song and dance.
Directing a concert is different. There’s a smorgasbord of context involved, and well, it’s a bit of a challenge narrowing down and concretizing an actor’s objectives per number since it keeps changing. There are so many nuances per song, and in some songs, they carry out several objectives. Basically, the actors have to be schizo in this show. One minute high school students, the next minute villagers chastising a Batboy, the next minute taxi dancers at the Club Pompeii. There’s also the matter of the alumni who have their own preoccupations, having student actors with other preoccupations, and other matters involved with working with people in school. But the passion is there. Just needs a lil’ push really.
It’s going down to the wire. Two more weeks and we’ve still got a long way to go. But I’m confident that we’ll be able to pull this off - and if ever, it would be one of the biggest feats ever accomplished in Bluerep history. It’s time to rally - including me (yes despite my other obligations)… insurmountable obligations. To quote a line from the show, “We’re all in this together!”
